Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown has unintended consequences.
  • moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    Kids traumatized by school shootings express themselves via media that others find distasteful? Straight to jail.

    Overabundance of guns makes the US the only major country in the world where school gun violence is a daily occurrence? “Thoughts and prayers…”

    • hume_lemmy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      No no, y’see, the actual crime they’re being charged with is “making the people in power look bad”